MEMS technology

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has begun to develop a Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) for the manipulation of insects into "cyborgs." Through genetic engineering, they are aiming to control the movement of insects ...

BeSpoon and CEA-Leti have demonstrated an IR-UWB integrated circuit able to measure distances within a few centimeters' accuracy, and they have established a world-record operating range at 880m (standard regulation) and 3,641m (emergency situations).

DARPA's Advanced Wide FOV Architectures for Image Reconstruction and Exploitation (AWARE) program has demonstrated the first LWIR camera that uses pixels only five microns across. This is the first IR camera with pixels about half the size of the ...

Nanotechnology

(Nanowerk News) A team of researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, the University of Maryland, and Korea University (Seoul, Korea) has measured the nanoscale distribution of photoacid molecules in photoresists using a ...

A team of Virginia Tech researchers has succeeded in transforming cellulose into starch, a process that has the potential to provide a previously untapped nutrient source from plants not traditionally thought of as food crops.

Plant components that bend, roll or twist in response to external stimuli such as temperature or moisture are fairly commonplace in nature and often play a role in the dispersal of seeds. Pine cones, for instance, close their scales when wet and open them again once they have dried out.

Nanotech business

Turning from cognitive to molecular bridges, Breakout Labs is also funding Stealth Biosciences to develop nanoscale devices that can measure and exert control over biological processes at the level of single cells. Stanford University professors Nick ...